Scrapbook

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17300443

Description

Title: Scrapbook
Creator: From the Collection: Evans, Walter O.
Contributor: From the Collection: Douglass family
From the Collection: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
From the Collection: Douglass, Helen Amelia Loguen
From the Collection: Douglass, Lewis Henry, 1840-1908
From the Collection: Douglass, Frederick, Jr., 1841-1892
From the Collection: Douglass, Charles R. (Charles Remond Douglass), 1844-1920
Published / Created: circa 1895-1898, undated
Description: Lewis Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass, compiled this scrapbook. Much of the scrapbook's contents document the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895, including articles, clippings, eulogies and appreciations, speeches, sermons, letters of condolence, and other printed items. A plate on the scrapbook cover reads, "U.S.A. Medical Department Morning Report Book".
Provenance: Purchased from Walter O. and Linda Evans on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, and the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2020.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

JWJ MSS 240

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Container / Volume

Box 17

Access: Public
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Citation: Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.